Rage-Baiting VS Race-Baiting

In today’s episode, we discuss the difference between rage-baiting and race-baiting, and how, although both may seem similar, they are two different concepts that seek to control your emotions. 

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Welcome to the Art of Conversation. It's your girl Alicia C. And we outcha recording live. Yo. Happy Monday, everyone. Good morning. I hope you're feeling mindful this Monday. I hope you're feeling motivated this Monday. Yes, it's Monday again. Hope you guys had a good weekend. I know, I know. We go through this every week, right? Already. Monday again. Yes, it is. Carry on. I hope you guys are setting the tone for the rest of the week. Let's make it productive. We have some nice, some really hot days ahead, some nice days. Enjoy it. Happy July. The title of today's episode is Rage Baiting versus Race Baiting. According to Oxford, rage baiting is the online content intentionally designed to provoke anger or outrage. Creators use it as a manipulative tactic to guarantee high engagement, such as views, comments, and shares, which algorithms reward and creators monetize. Rage bait. We hear that term a lot. We hear it. Oh, they're just rage baiting. Don't believe it. Oh, you're rage baiting. That's rage bait. You're a rage baiter. Rage bait is a broad term for any content. Content. We're talking videos, articles, social media posts that deliberately design, that are deliberately designed to make viewers angry. Straight up. The goal is to provoke emotional reactions. So people will click, comment, share, and that's boost this. This this it's it's gonna boost the creator's visibility and ad revenue. Rage bait topics can be about anything. Politics, parenting, artistry, or videos where the person is intentionally making a mistake. Maybe cooking, maybe a hobby, maybe an activity, maybe a craft. Intentionally making the mistake, intentional misinformation, because you want to get the viewers angry. You want a conflict, truth, conflict, opinions. You want a reaction, and we hear, yo, man, truth, and with AI, ah, all you see is rage bait. We had a previous episode about AI and the dangers of it. Some of the things you're seeing, question, it's not even real. Half of the things you see, it's not even real. Rage bait, it pissed you off, didn't it? Mm-hmm. That was the point. And I noticed that more content is designed to trigger those negative emotions in the mass, people, opposed to content that uplifts, breeds life. You know what I'm saying? Like you have, you have them, you have it, affirmations, you know, motivational speaking, all that great stuff. But negativity sells, as unfortunate as it is, and years, centuries, decades, life experience, and just history repeating itself. Look, we know that that's what sells. Toxicity sells, negativity sells, drama, chaos sells. Unfortunately, in the music, people gravitate, some gravitate towards shooting. I'm gonna shoot you, bite me, lick me, suck me, da-da-da-da-da. There's controversy. There's excuse me, there's controversy right now with that song, uh, spend that. I think there's like this beef between India RE and I don't even know, isn't Young Miami? I don't, I'm not even up on, I don't, I don't know. I love my my old school music. I love my 90s, early 2000s. That's when, and this is my opinion, that's when to me, music was valuable, the best, had meaning, had a storyline you could better relate to. And I feel like the crap that's put being pushed out now is just like promoting negativity, promoting just low vibration and you lowering your standards, you using and fucking people over. And it had they throw it over a catchy beat, and there you go. But I say all that to say how much social media can have an effect on people, and then we get introduced with this concept of rage baiting. So a lot of the things you're seeing, it's just to get a reaction, like there's no other significance behind the content, except for I know that someone out there is gonna see this and argue against it, or get offended, get pissed, and gonna feel like they need to defend themselves and put me in check and prove why I'm wrong, prove and argue, even curse you out, whatever. It's engagement. Who cares? It's engagement. Your goal is the engagement. Get as much engagement, get that money. Who cares how people look at you after that, right? Who cares about what consequences follow after? Who cares how detrimental the effects will be? No, it's about the engagement. According to Cambridge, race baiting is the act of intentionally using inflammatory language, stereotypes, or dog whistles to exploit and agitate racial tensions. It is frequently utilized as a political or social tactic to provoke anger, mobilize a specific voter base, or plain old divide communities. Oh shit, hold up. So we can all agree that the two are relatable and their purpose is to provoke a negative emotion from people. The mass, both of them. They want to frig with your emotions, emotional reaction, and both emotions are anger. Race baiting is a much more specific, malicious tactic. It involves using racially inflammatory language, stereotypes, or provocations to anger, divide or manipulate a specific audience. While race baiting can be used to create rage bait for engagement, it is fundamentally all about leveraging racial tensions, biases, or prejudice to achieve a political or social goal. Goes right back to what we said in the beginning. They're interconnected, one washes the hand of the other. Like I said, the only difference between the two is literally, quite literally one letter. Both want to provoke the same type of emotion. One is more so with an intention or a goal to create some kind of division or conflict, racial tension. The other one is more so for, yeah, you're you're gonna do that in the process, but it's all about I'm trying to gain the engagement. I'm trying to get more visibility. I want money, I want to generate revenue from this. So you think content creating and social media influencers, and also seeing content where people are doing just anything, any eye, anything, just for views, right? They don't care what kind of intention, like I don't they don't care. I don't care what kind of attention I get. Don't care as long as there's attention. Attention is a drug. Hmm. On par therapy calls it a manipulation tactic that's hijacking your emotions and gives us the following details on how to stop it. But before we go there, my question is can you really stop it? Freedom of speech, freedom, flexibility, non-regulated tools. Can you really stop it? Do you guys think it can stop? Do you think they want to stop it? Come on. It goes back to history repeating itself, the government, people, people in power, being able to control the minds and emotions of such a large group of people all at once. That's power. Can you really stop it? We're in the generation of technology, they're trying to everything's digital. Where can you go? My lovely. Where you go? Listen, it goes deeper than just making people mad, though. It's a calculated manipulation tactic designed to generate engagement. User attention is a commodity. There's no you without us, there's no you without us. Let that sink in. They also tell us that anger is one of the most highly profitable and engaging human emotions. What? So if I can benefit and profit more off of you being pissed off, then I'm gonna continuously piss you off. That's their mindset, and it's true, there's certain emotions like anger and lust, love, these are strong emotions, and they exert powerful energy. Why you think, why you think, why you think, why you think, why you think people go out their way to trigger you, reactive abuse, piss you off. They want you furious, gives them power, fuels them energetically. That's why. And it's not even about social media right now, it's just everyday life. It has nothing to do with some you know how I am. It's not about race, it's the person because we're fighting a battle that's spiritual, not physical. So when you pull all of that shit on the outside out of the way, you got something going on. You're not a good person, you you you hurting is there's a provoking spirit attached to you. You feed off of people's hurt. Why do you think they always say, Oh, um, in a relationship that's unhealthy, the woman can enter the relationship glowing, or vice versa. Person enters the relationship glowing, and then they get connect, they connect themselves or get attached to someone who's not good and not matching their frequency, don't have nothing to offer you. So technically, they're just draining you of your energy, and then on top of that, they're not doing right by you. They're putting you through stress, they're putting you through hell, they're cheating, they're this, and that's getting you what angry, depressed, sad, angry, angry, all that energy, energy. You're wondering where this motherfucker is, if they're gonna cheat every time they step up. Energy. Then you notice this motherfucker is glowing and looking good, and now you look depleted. Energy. That's how energy works. So now when we think about these tactics, and them actually measuring and confirming that anger is profitable. Look at everything happening in the world, especially now. There's so many controversies going on right now that you have to use these two words rage bait and race bait. Previous episodes I talk about racism evolved, segregation evolved, propaganda, right? All propaganda, lynching evolved, history repeating itself, being aware, are you aware? Aware of where your attention and your energy is going, aware that certain things trigger an emotion in you, aware that, hmm, why is it that every time someone brings up this topic, this word, or says things like this, or if I see videos or content is about this topic or this, this, why do I start getting upset? Why do I start feeling anxious? Why, why, why? You gotta also self-reflect and be aware of yourself, right? If you know it's gonna trigger you, why are you sitting there listening to the whole video? From the title and the first sentence, oh no, but they still sit because now it's a matter of okay, you caught my attention and said something that I don't agree with, and now it's like out of bounds. But now I'm like, let me sit and listen to the rest of this so that I could respond. Why you're responding if you don't agree, why you responding? Why are you wasting your time, energy, breath to type? Let this person know you don't agree, they're wrong, they're rage baiting. Come on, come on, spend your energy wisely, it's very valuable. Why? The why, the why engagement. When people are angry about an outrageous headline or controversial video, they are far more likely to click on it. Yes, they're gonna argue in the comments and they're gonna share it with other people. Can you believe this shit? Look at this. Let's ban this person, let's all ban it. Oh no, why are you wasting your time? Just block them, and then you don't see no more of their shit. This cycle ultimately generates more ad revenue. So that's the root of it. It's about making money. We don't care what we put out, we know you're gonna watch it, and even if you don't agree with it and you're pissed, you're gonna feel like, and that's the ego, you're gonna feel like you have something to prove. So you're gonna argue with me about how I'm wrong, and I'm just sitting there watching my views and engagement go up. Thank you. I know I'm wrong for saying and doing that, but somebody responded, didn't they? I got your attention, didn't I? And that's all I needed. You see that? Slick, right? Whoo, chau. Controversial conversations, right? It's all about controlling your conversations and your narrative. It's about distracting you from the real issues, it's about creating more emotional chaos that benefits the beter. So this is for social media and online spaces, but it also shows up in personal relationships, right? In relationships, rage baiting might look like what? Uh emotional abuse, reactive abuse. Shit. It looks like making deliberate, hurtful comments during an argument. It means it looks like bringing up past mistakes and at or inappropriate times. Like, there's a time and place for that, but you're bringing it up because you want to trigger an emotion. Using passive aggressive behavior to provoke actions. People like people do this all the time. Passive aggressive to provoke a reaction. They want to know that what they're doing is gonna bother you enough that you're gonna act out so other people kiss it. Like it's crazy, and this is everywhere. Playing victim after intentionally pushing boundaries. That's another thing. That's why I said it's very manipulative, is very abusive, it's nasty. We see it online, we see it in person. They give us examples of rage bait, and they also provide us with some examples of how to recognize the patterns. So they give us common rage baiting tactics that include one, the hot take, posting controversial opinions designed to spark debate rather than genuine discussion. See that all the time. Then we got the victim flip, starting conflict, then playing the victim when others respond defensively. Yes. We got the straw man set up, which is misrepresenting someone's position to make it easier to attack. Absolutely. We got the bait and switch, appearing reasonable initially, then revealing inflammatory views once you're engaged. Whoo, seeing that. We got the personal attack disguised as concern. I'm just worried about you because, and then it's followed by criticism. Oh yeah. Why do people rage bait though? That's what that's what people have to understand. Why do they do it? When you remove the obvious, which is the engagement and the revenue, why why why people do it? Because we're talking about it's not only just content. Like I know that we use that term very freely, that you know, in-person interactions, people, oh, you're trying to rage bait, even though it's more so based like online-ish. But you you hear it tossed around here and there in just regular everyday life. Why do people do it? To get an emotional reaction out of you, point blank. They want to control your emotions, they feed off of that. How to stop it. Well, what I think they meant by how to stop it means how to stop it from affecting you. Because you can't stop it. Can we? No. You can stop it from affecting you, you can protect your peace, you can know your triggers, folks. Know what triggers you, know what bothers you, self-reflect. What topics are sensitive? Phrases, behaviors consistently hook you, knowing that it hooks you. Awareness is the first step to the freedom, right? Knowing yourself. What is it about this type of content that although it annoys or pisses me off, I'm still hooked on watching and pulling it up, like sitting through this, even though I know I'm gonna be angry after. That doesn't make no sense at all. But you have to reflect on what part of you is attracted to it. Curate your environment, you have more control than you think. Now, I'll take TikTok for example. I've come across content videos, I'm like, and sometimes it's from the same user. Oh, excuse me, not user, from the same creator. Like, I don't want to see this shit, not interested. Swipe, hit the button, not interested. I hit not interested already. Why the hell are you still popping up on my FYP? That's why I feel like the shit is rigged because it's like if I'm clearly clicking, not interested. And on more than one of their videos from this account, why are you still sending it here? The only option I have is to block it. I don't want to see your shit. You're ignorant. You get the fuck up off my FYP, my for you page. Block. You unfollow these accounts, but it's like if you already engage with the account or someone you're following or follows you is connected. Like it's it's it's crazy the algorithm and the dynamic. Still popping up. People you follow are reposting that same content. Like, just block the account. The accounts that you know are consistent, like you know for sure they're consistently rage baiting. Oh, I'm over it. Okay, block, set boundaries with people who thrive on drama, toxicity, set boundaries with how you use your social media platforms, point blank. And the crazy thing is when you set up these accounts, and even if like when you set up these accounts, they ask you to click off your categories of interest, but also further step, you can have this account, and let's just say your phone messed up and you Got to get a new phone or tablet. Now you get this new device, you got to re-log in, setup, say path, blah blah blah. Right now, it asks you again your interests, hobbies, what kind of content you want us to push on your page. But then when you click it and it saves and you get a few, and then all of a sudden you're getting the shit that you don't want to see. And it's like, wait, I did not check this off. Why is this here? Even after I said I'm not interested. Why is it here? What you're doing? Tactics, tactics, manipulation, tactics. Is it really private? Is it really freedom? How much flexibility and freedom do we actually have? We know not much. We know not much with these platforms. This shit is owned by other people. Why do you think when you post certain things, it doesn't even have to be derogatory? No curse words, no, no inappropriate, no nothing. Just opinion, maybe some truth here or there. And you get hit and flagged with a violation. Um, what was wrong with this comment? What was wrong with this post? Yeah. Create spaces that nourish you rather than drain you. Now, if this is an account that you don't, nah, this person's always rage baiting. Okay, so block them. Why are you taking your time, precious time and energy to sit here and click reply or click and write, take your time to write in that comment section how much of a jerk they are for posting this type of content? How what they said or did is incorrect. Like, why just keep it moving? Why pick and choose your battles, pick and choose where your attention and energy is flowing, pick and choose, but then we gotta go back to this ideology that drama, toxicity, chaos, negativity sells. Attention is attention, it doesn't matter if it's good or bad, it's wanted. Some people are addicted to attention, toxicity, all of that. People, there's people who's having the time of their life right now with all these current of current events, tragedies, the racial tension. Like it's people saying here, just like with popcorn enjoying that shit. You gotta practice emotional regulation. Daily, man, daily, man. We talk about mindful Monday, mindfulness, awareness, self-reflect, knowing yourself, knowing your triggers, knowing how you show up, knowing what you offer to a space, whether it's online or in person. Don't wait for the crisis to practice these skills. And you know, I'm always discussing and encouraging people to plan self-care, learn how to disconnect from this matrix. Focus, be aware. There's gonna always be a whole bunch of chaos around you, but you have to be still and you have to learn how to block it out so you can think and operate with some sense. Don't wait until shit hit the fan and now you're scrambling. No, we're dealing with preventative. Let me see what steps I need to take to get myself in the space I need to be in. So that if this, this, this, this comes at me, I know how to handle it correctly without it affecting me too much or at all. Build your emotional muscle through daily mindfulness, helping, like helping yourself. Helping yourself. Because it's not just like I said, it's not just about social media, it's about life. Like, remember life before social media? Yeah. Miss those days. I'm glad I got to experience that before this tech technological era. We didn't have social media, we was in person, face to face. You had an argument or disagreement. Oh, I'm gonna we're gonna take it to the basketball court. I'm gonna we're gonna do, you know, come on, let's shoot it up. Or they go to the box and ring. Let's box up, let's tap, tap gloves. Let me see where you lay. Put your money in your mouth, where your money is. Like, what what happened? Right? And with social media, AI, and everything, and just time changing and pushing everyone to be more, I want to say dumb them down and be more lazy and rely on media. I mean, again, shit. AI, shit. We talk about kids previous episode. We discussed how uh teachers and professors like they coming in here, they can't read, can't read, can't write properly. They just go to Wikipedia, they go on this chat GPT, and that's just you know what I'm saying? Social media affects your social and emotional skills as well. That's why we said, hey, when COVID happened, that was it. That was it, that was the shift. That was it. It affected, it affected people socially, emotionally, all of that. Still in recovery, and then you came and pushed social media and then AI, oh gosh, and then people started realizing like, hey, this sells, like, you know, more and more people got into content creating because of that. Oh, I could just but then you got to think of you know, lack of privacy, security, you know. But we're we're not gonna get too far straight. The point is developing healthy coping strategies for yourself, for when you go out into the world, because you don't know what the hell is out there when you go out there. You'll know when you get out there, right? And that's in real-time everyday interactions, and that's also online. You got to remember your values when someone tries to bait you. You ask yourself, is responding to this aligned with who I want to be and what I value? Let your values guide your actions, not your emotions. Emotional intelligence, they need to teach in these schools. A lot of people don't have no emotional intelligence. Why do you think we see the shit that has happened, has happened, and is happening now? He stepped on your new Air Force Ones. It was an accident. Let's just say we're waiting for the train. This lady is with her son. She has a cup of coffee in her hand. The son acting out. She has the coffee in one hand, she's trying to grab him before he runs. He's running and playing around. She's focused on, you know, keeping him safe. Hey, stay here. Cup, the one hand holding the coffee, tips over, almost catches the guy that's standing next to her, but he peeps it and he jumps back. Whoo, in the nick of time and pow, nice save. However, him doing that, he accidentally backs up into the person next to him and steps on his foot. Step on those fresh new Air Force ones. Some people may say, My bad. Oh, I'm sorry. And some people won't apologize. How do you respond? All right, he stepped on your sneaker, he didn't say sorry. You punched him in the face, you shot him in his leg. Was that necessary? Oh, but nah, nah, he stepped on my what but that was your response? Yeah, but if it was an accident, you say sorry. Some people don't have manners. Straight up. Some people don't have manners. You can't assume and expect everyone to operate, think, and be and value moral everything the same way you do. So that's why you need to know yourself and be mindful and have your own emotional intelligence so that when people do things that don't align with what you want, because you can't expect we have control over no one. You can't expect someone to uh-uh-uh. And you'd be stupid to expect, oh, if I step on this person's foot, I stepped on plenty of other foots and they ain't gonna do shit. I'm gonna step on your foot. Yeah, but this was the day you met your match. Now he blew your face off. Now you on the lose. Now you're on the news. Oh, but but you don't know who and what you're crossing paths with in this street, especially nowadays. People are so temperamental. Like you look at somebody, what, what, what? Me, you stare me down. Uh, we're gonna have a staring contest because I'm gonna stare you right in your face without blinking until you get uncomfortable and look the fuck away. That's but I also have discernment, so I know who to pull that with, and I know who it's just like, yeah, I can see the wicked and evil in your eyes. You looking for a target, you want someone to respond. You're a provoking spirit. You want someone to respond or do something so that you can say, here, this is the reason why I did this fucked up shit, or I did this horrible act. You gave me a reason, this right here, even though you're the reason and the person's responding. So now that response you feel warrants your beh your poor behavior, right? We have all types of stuff we're battling out there, right? All types, all types. Are you aware of how and where you're spending your time and energy, though? Are you aware? Are you aware? The bottom line, you have the power. They don't want you to know that. Rage baiting is ultimately about control. So is race baiting. And most of the things we see, how people act, behave, speak nowadays, it's all about control. They want to control. You see some of the dynamics of relationships. The man wants to control the woman, or the woman wants to not all, I'm just saying some. The woman wants control. You have to chase me, you have to give me this, you have to comply with what I want. Control. I want you to feel this way. I'm gonna withhold this information and withhold this emotional, withhold from you because I want to control how you feel about yourself or how you feel. I want you to question. I have the control to make you. You're sick, and there's people who think that way, and some of these people are your content creators. It's sick. You have control over no fucking body, but there's this grand illusion that you can attain control over the emotions, and you know, once you have control over someone's emotions, you basically have some kind of leverage over them. We all know of all emotions. Anger, come on, you can't do shit when you're angry, you can't think clearly. That's why they want you mad all the damn time. You can't think clearly, you can't operate clearly, you can't manifest, you can't attract you. That's why it's a very low vibrational emotion. Check it out. Don't let it go over your head now. Don't let nobody control your emotions, your time, your energy, and your peace. Choose your battles wisely and choose where your attention and energy is going. They don't want you to know you have more power than they do. Rage bathing. I'm gonna drop this, right? I'm gonna drop this little it so this is a little um, this was a video that actually popped up several times, and it's just crazy because one of my friends wind up sending me the same video, and I had literally just seen it. It was so funny. Not funny as a humorous, but it was just so funny that holy shit, you're sending me a video that I just literally seen on my FYP yesterday four fucking times. Like, why am I seeing this type of video with this message so many times? And it was AI generated, so it's just like you're seeing a mix of people saying their own personal opinions, misinformation, people sitting there saying like saying whatever, starting to spark a race war, and then also people utilizing the AI tools to generate frigness that's gonna push out more anger and spark more controversy and more emotional reactions, right? I'm gonna stick it. I'm gonna stick it. I'm gonna stick it somewhere in this uh episode shortly, right? So rage baiting. American progress shared with us that it doesn't begin to reach the level of damage done when racial stereotypes and prejudice influence our public policy decisions. So they're telling us that stereotypes about like low-income African Americans and Latinos have a long historical legacy that continues to this day. Yes, it does. We know. But who created those perceptions, right? So negative perceptions about entire groups of people are never good. Is it ever? Look, we're in 2026. We keep talking about history repeating itself and racism evolved and segregation evolved, all these things evolved because it never stopped. It never stopped. The story, like it never broke, it just got worse. But when those attitudes contribute to the derailment of efforts to develop effective anti-poverty policies meant to help Americans of all, all, all races, it's a tragedy. What? It's backwards. It's all bullshit. It's bullshit. Stereotypes undermine public support for much-needed programs and just as damaging to misguided policies that are aimed at solving false or non-existent problems. While the come on, while the freaking the truth, the truth is being ignored. The true causes of poverty fail to receive proper or sufficient attention. The truth is being hidden. What the hell is this? You're doing all of this. Alright, we see your efforts, but this is not solving the problem. Why is there such thing as race baiting and rage baiting? Why are certain groups stereotyped against? What is it gonna take to break it? Who put them there? Who's still actively carrying it? What is it? Why does it still persist? It's harmful. Oh, the country, man, stubborn, stubborn, stubborn, stubborn. What is it gonna take? Now, the why. The why. Why am I mentioning these terms? Why are we discussing this? Why, why? Race baiting and rage baiting, why? Why are we talking about these concepts? Well, this serves as a reminder and basically a follow-up. Again, on the Nolan Wells case. Some of you are not aware, that's the 18-year-old African-American teenager from Mississippi went on a boat trip with several of his friends. Um, I have to say several of his friends, because although the pictures of footage we've seen, the media released, is him being the only African American amongst many other Caucasian males. But is here saying other pictures floating around that he had some other friends with that they were no like it, whatever. I try not to feed too much into these things. There's the good old being mindful of where your energy and attention is going, because like I said, it's it's unfortunate. Um, if this actually did happen, it's unfortunate. And we always hope and pray for justice to be served in any situation. Any, whether we hear about it or not, any. But it's just it goes back to why the media or the government or these entities pick and choose what they push out and consistently just continuous. Some things are not even new, these are old things, but similar concepts, similar tragedies, similar outcomes being brought back from the past. Why are these videos? Why are these videos coming back in the midst of this? And why is this case overshadowing the other teens that we found out drowned while out with friends? Or the little four-year-old Javea Harris, rest in peace, who was murdered by her parents. Why is this case overshadowing? What makes this case? So, you know what I'm saying? Like, it like why, why? Oh, is it because it involves two different races now? Okay, okay, okay, okay. It's yo, this case continues to spark attention like many others similar to it. Controversies, controversies, controversies, controversies, controversies. Since the last episode in Finance, there's been so many more, so many more stories floating, floating around about what happened, what actually happened. We hear about more additional players who was there, didn't say nothing. Uh people are questioning where, who, what, where, where, why, the baiting, the discrimination, the ignorance, the post, the videos, the podcast, the everything, the AI generated videos sparking certain types of messages. Why, why, why, why, why, why? Why this? Why that? What time? Why did the friends leave him? They were never his friends, and that's why y'all black people need to stop hanging out with these white folks. Ah, here we go. And you guys always hear me say, listen, it's not about race. Like, I understand, I get it, but it's not about race. Man, we pull race out of the side. This is just a shit ass person. Because when you pull all of that away, your spirit is not good. You're not a good-hearted person. The hell with your color. You don't feel color, you don't feel race, you feel energy. I feel that spirit of yours, and it's not good. I feel the heavy darkness that's within you, and that has nothing to do with your race. We can agree that certain races, because of culture, you know, we know, we know. Family, this is what your family taught you conditioning, culture. At some point, you have to take accountability though. It's just like people who grew up, abusive families, abuse, domestic violence, all kind of stuff. Yes, there's certain traits you're gonna pick up because you're you were a kid, and your first your first teachers are your parents, your family. So yeah. Um, yeah. But when you get to a point where you know, like, yeah, the way I was taught, brought up, conditions, etc., I this wasn't good, this ain't right, and it's for you to want better and want to change that, right? You know it's not right to hate somebody just because of how they look. You know that don't feel right. You know you don't want nobody to do that to you. You know, like you don't know nothing about this person, but you're just judging them. Oh, I don't want. So to speak, Nolan Wells, countless amounts of questions and stories. We don't know what happened for sure. People become, and you know, I told my friend, I'm like, yo, situations like this, tragedies, anything like these kind of things is so h like as hilarious. I don't mean hilarious in the sense of what happened, I mean hilarious at how all of a sudden people become inspector gadgets. Now you're devoting all your time and energy, you're zooming in on these videos, you're circling pictures, you're circling body parts. Here, there it is, right there. I found it. Yeah, they killed him. Oh, y'all need to stay away from white people. Ba ba ba ba ba. Why did they leave? Why did they return home without him? That's because they never considered him a friend. And we need to stop thinking that they're our friends. Speak for yourself. We don't know what happened. Yes, we've seen similar situations like this, and we know the outcomes, but we don't know the outcomes. We're just assuming that we know because it's happened so frequently. They came back with his phone, but not him. Who's the girl he walked off with? Where did he go? Why didn't they call the parents? Why did the family had to track his phone to find out where was his keys? So many gaps in the stories, people filling in their own blanks. We're seeing more and more videos displaying these concepts. Even videos of black people posted videos of them being the only black person, right? So we have all these mixed controversial videos, people talking about oh, don't be the only one. Oh what the hell was he thinking? His family didn't teach them. Oh, they're those type of black people who want to be white. It's just race war is brewing, and it's been brewing for quite some time. And I just feel like I'm noticing like more and more and more. Like they really, I don't know if it's I don't know if it's a reaction from the black community they're looking for, or if they just straight up are like indirectly brewing this race war and just hoping for segregation. I don't know what the hell. I'm gonna tie this video in. I'm gonna tie this in. This is an AI generated uh video, but I just want you guys to listen to the message and just this this this is what I'm talking about. Just listen, hear this out.

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Tell your sons and daughters, stop hanging around white people, Mexicans, and every other race who look at black people the same. There is no black and brown unity, it's only black. This is what the ancestors meant by not mixing with other races. They all go to church every Sunday. They will not ever see their heaven they claim to be going to. Stop scrolling, click the link in the bio, download the 20 chapters of knowledge, and learn how to move in this hateful world.

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Interesting, right? Aye, aye, aye. Just imagine there's so many more of these types of videos and content that's just floating around, floating around. People themselves are making these videos, spreading the same message, just floating around, floating around, floating around every day, even though I'm not on social media every day, but um, I can definitely assume that every day or most days is just the same shit. Like you see how right now news, channels, certain platforms, certain influencers, they're just focused on this. This is the topic, this is this is the focus right now. Keeping up with the investigations, keeping up with the autopsy results, keeping up to ensure that, okay, this is what it is. Let me report the findings, uh-uh, uh, uh, right, because everyone has their own purpose for why they do what they do. Maybe this platform or this influencer only focuses on these type of tragedies or homicides, whatever. Then you have others who focus on other things that they're reporting, but it's like all of this ties back to the previous episodes because no matter what, you're going to have conflicting parties and controversy, especially when you're dealing with race. And I know that I've seen videos and I've also had discussions with people where they were like, you know, listen. Listen. Black people need maybe segregation is the best thing. Black people need to stick together. Why do you think that? Because nobody likes black people, da-da-da-da. And then myself and some others jump in and we're like, I see where you're coming from. However, in order for that to happen, it requires black people to actually uh love black people, love themselves. And I'm all for addressing the elephant in the room because when it comes to situations like this about race, that's when the uproar happens. But when it's black on black crimes, not really so much the same energy. Victim mentality. You want someone to blame. And as an as a black woman, I've always shared my stance on things like this because I'm like, uh, the race that brought me the most problems and pain was my own. They hate hearing the truth. I'm not sitting here trying to listen, I love my people, okay? I love who I am. I love, listen. I wouldn't want to be any other race except for who I am. People be like, oh, if you had a chance to change, I love who I am. I don't want to be anything other than who I am. But I can also say, yes, I love my people, but y'all gotta heal. You, y'all, yo, y'all got issues. And you can't possibly expect other people, racist communities to respect you if y'all don't respect each other. There is no unity in the black community. You need to heal and learn how to take accountability. That's the first step. Not when things like this happen, and now you're pointing the finger, oh, this is why blacks need to stick together. There is no unity in the black community, though. What are we sticking together? Y'all don't really support each other for real. And you don't want to heal and address the part of you that becomes envious and jealous of another person that looks like you that's doing something that you wish you could do or can't, whatever the case is, better than what you're doing. You know what I'm saying? They don't want to see someone like them doing better than them or doing something that they ain't doing. Like a lot of y'all have that mentality and them issues. And I know somebody I've had this discussion with has said it's what is it, crab in a barrel. We're past that. I'm like, why you still that's that's you stay over there with that, and that's why we're in the predicament that we're in because y'all still have that, and you want to blame other people, and y'all the problem too. When you start showing love and unity in your own community to your people, then the others will follow behind that. Like, when I say this is spewing so much, but it's bittersweet because you you want people to express themselves and share their opinions. But at the same time, it's like, I mean, look at this. Awareness, propaganda, history repeating itself. And now we see Al Sharpton re-entering the stage. You know, when he pops up on stage, you know it's a money grab, and you know some racial tensions is stirring down down ahead, down the path, down the block. Some people are fearful at the outcome. For the family, for the country. Some people, uh, we know. There was this young gentleman, he made like a series of videos saying, we all know, don't be surprised, we all know he ain't gonna get no justice. We know people arguing with him back air for it, clapbacks, video responses, clapping back at each other. Oh, is people like you why we can't get ahead as black people. Shut the fuck up. You know what I'm saying? Like, excuse my language, but look, we haven't a conversation, right? I don't like filters, I'm very blunt, straight to the point. Shut your ass up. Al Sharpton, Ben Crump, certain people, ambulance chasers, right? Has an interesting rap sheet filled with criticisms of past protests, racial tensions. We know his long push career for civil rights, right? Some people think this is all a farce. Some people think that um this is just a money grab, and these are paid actors. See, everyone thinks differently. You see how some people are saying this, and then some people are saying that he didn't even die. Like, this is a money grab, this is a distraction from what's actually happening, and we'll know soon enough what that actually happening is. Like, yo, crazy. Remember, guys, we can't believe everything the media puts out. The world is a gigantic stage filled with paid and well-paid actors at that. Not saying that's the case for this, but just saying, generally speaking, it's a stage, and not everything you see is what it is, and just be careful, be careful, be mindful of what you're allowing into your mind, your spirit, watch your surroundings, educate yourself, your children, and most importantly, always trust your gut because, like I said, race, you can't feel that, but energy you can. Energy has no color or race, memba dat. And we're on borrowed time, and these bodies, vessels don't belong to us, these are vehicles we're using right now. It's your spirit and soul. Are you making the right choices? Be safe, y'all. Stay prayed and peace out.